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How to spell butter

hear itbut·ter/'bətər/nounStarter

What it means: A creamy substance made from milk or cream.

In a sentence: I spread butter on my toast for breakfast.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double t. Often misspelled as buter or buttor.

Same family: headbutt, fighter, boxing, illegal, foul. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This slang use of "butter" comes from the word "butt" meaning to hit with the head, plus the -er ending that names a person who does something (like "runner"). It is unrelated to "butter," the dairy product, even though the spellings look the same.

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix?

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